Mikhail Rusakov

{{family name hatnote|Petrovich|Rusakov|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Mikhail Petrovich Rusakov

| native_name = Михаил Петрович Русаков

| native_name_lang = ru

| image = Mikhail Rusakov.jpg

| birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|20 November|1892|8 November}}

| birth_place = Yukhnov, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|10|24 |1892|11|20}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

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| resting_place = Novodevichy Cemetery

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| citizenship = {{flag|Russian Empire}}
{{flag|Soviet Union}}

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Mikhail Petrovich Rusakov ({{langx|ru|Михаил Петрович Русаков}}, {{OldStyleDate|20 November|1892|8 November}} in Yukhnov – 24 October 1963 in Moscow) was a Soviet geologist, academician of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.{{cite encyclopedia

| year =1969–1978

| title =Русаков Михаил Петрович

| encyclopedia =Great Soviet Encyclopedia

| url = http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/bse/128645/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2

}}{{cite encyclopedia

| title =Русаков Михаил Петрович

| encyclopedia =Горная Энциклопедия

| url = http://www.mining-enc.ru/r/rusakov/

}}

He graduated from high school with a gold medal.{{Cite web |url=http://nkvd.tomsk.ru/researches/passional/rusakov-mihail-petrovich/ |title=Михаил Петрович Русаков (1892—1963) |access-date=2019-10-19 |archive-date=2019-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019152620/http://nkvd.tomsk.ru/researches/passional/rusakov-mihail-petrovich/}} In 1911,{{Cite web |url=http://catalog.karlib.kz/irbis64r_01/Kraeved/Geologiya/v_moeoy_dushe_net_mesta_ni_stydu_ni_pozoru.pdf |title=В душе моей нет места ни стыду, ни позору... |access-date=2018-03-10 |archive-date=2018-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310201257/http://catalog.karlib.kz/irbis64r_01/Kraeved/Geologiya/v_moeoy_dushe_net_mesta_ni_stydu_ni_pozoru.pdf}}{{Cite web |url=http://nkvd.tomsk.ru/researches/passional/rusakov-mihail-petrovich/ |title=Русаков Михаил Петрович (1892—1963) |access-date=2019-10-19 |archive-date=2019-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019152620/http://nkvd.tomsk.ru/researches/passional/rusakov-mihail-petrovich/}} he entered the Geological Department of the Petrograd Mining Institute, from which he graduated in 1921.

He worked in the Ural-Siberian Division of the Geological Committee, and then in the geological department of the Kazakh branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

His main works are devoted to the study of geology and ore deposits of Kazakhstan.

Rusakov discovered the following mining fields: Kounrad (copper), Semizbugskoe (corundum, andalusite) Karagaylinskoye (lead, barite), Kairaktinsky (asbestos, barite, base metals) and other mineral deposits.

On 30 May 1949 Rusakov was arrested by the NKVD as a part of falsified "Krasnoyarsk Case". By an extrajudicial decision of the Special Council of the NKVD he was sentenced to 25 years of labor camps. He worked in a sharashka OTB-1 in Krasnoyarsk. He was freed and rehabilitated on 20 March 1954{{cite web|title=Михаил Петрович Русаков|url=http://www.g-to-g.com/?version=rus&module=8&id=390|work=Книга Памяти|access-date=2013-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211073745/http://www.g-to-g.com/?version=rus&module=8&id=390|archive-date=2015-12-11|url-status=dead}}

Mineral Rusakovite, water ferrovanadate Fe5 [VO4] 2 (OH) 9 • 3H2O{{cite web|title=Rusakovite|url=http://www.mindat.org/min-3477.html|work=Mindat.org}} is named after Mikhail Rusakov.

There is a monument to Rusakov in the city of Balkhash erected in 1992 to commemorate the centenary of the scientist and a school and a street of the city is named after him.